Sam Witty

Sam Witty is a senior research scientist at Toyota Research Institute, where he works on AI technology for scaling up reliable science and engineering. His work draws on a variety of fields: LLM-based agents, causality, probability/statistics, epistemology, and programming languages.

Before that, Sam founded Sorbus, an AI consultancy for hard tech R&D teams. Earlier, he was a senior research scientist at Basis and a core developer on the ChiRho causal probabilistic programming language. He completed his PhD at UMass Amherst and was a visiting researcher at MIT.